Editor Interview: The Broadkill Review

Beautiful language

Gargoyle, Paris Review, The Shore, Schuykill Valley Journal, Beltway Poetry Review, Delmarva Review, Delaware Poetry Review, Dreamstreets, The Common, EOAGH, Little Patuxent Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Sixth Finch, The Scores, Whale Road Review, Foglifter

Current heroes: Poetry: Jos Charles, James Allen Hall, Martin Espada, Eduardo Corral, Trace Peterson, Meg Day, Kay Barrett, Frank O'Hara, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Smith, Tracy K Smith, Solmaz Shariff, and many many others.

We are a small quarterly, you can fit us in your pocket, editors work closely on submissions. We can give your work TLC. Every poetry submission is also considered for our podcast.

Read our wee journal.
Check your grammar/usage.
Send us beautiful language.
We’re looking for poetry that plumbs the strange and beautiful, surprises us with new perspectives of what language does, and overwhelms us with Duende. Traditional form or wildly experimental, blank verse or free, we want you to woo us within an inch of our lives.
We aim to publish the best writing from the Delmarva Peninsula and beyond. We are interested in local and regional perspectives on climate change and its impacts and intersections. We are interested in queer, and BIPOC voices. We are interested in reading translated work from around the globe.
We publish ten-minute plays. We publish one-act plays. We publish reviews. We publish micro-reviews. Query [email protected] or submit via our fiction portal on the submissions page.

The piece which leaves me thinking, "I wish there was someone else in the room who had also just read this so we could talk about it!" or "Our readers have to read this!"

Sending us fiction that is way too long.
Advice in this regard? Read the magazine first, then give us a chance to read your work and think about it. Be a writer who cares about where you actually send your work -- your BEST work -- and we promise to read your work with as much care as you took in writing it.

Don't care a bit. When a cover letter comes in handy is after we have been impressed with the submission.

Every editor hopes to unwrap the perfect present found under the tree. It is no hardship to read such a submission straight through to the end, because you are so wrapped up in it that it doesn't matter how long or short it is. We have read ostensible "flash-fiction" that feels like War and Peace, or, at least, Bartleby. It should feel like unwrapping that perfect present!

IF we accept a work, and there is a typo, or a word misspelled, or a tense shift that fails, we will contact the author to point these things out.
IF we reject a work that shows that either or both the work itself and/or the writer has promise, we may suggest revisions, if technical, or suggest the ways in which the work might be improved, or, if the work itself is not quite right for us, invite the submission of other work. There is no magic bullet, however, and just because we suggest some corrections and/or revisions, or if we invite future submissions by the author, that is, in and of itself, no guarantee of future acceptance.

Check my e-mails, work on layout and formatting of work already accepted for publication, look at new work submitted, respond to inquiries (sometimes).

Depends.

We nominate for Best of The Net, and the Pushcart Prize. We will nominate to local and regional literary awards, particularly those centered on the Delmarva Peninsula.